At 1,022 gross tons, Merisilta is the 65,562nd largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 5.9 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 1,234 ferrys held here, it ranks 655th by tonnage — larger than 26% of that group. Their median tonnage is 3,908 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 25,454 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Japan (241 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with 34 hulls on record.
Finland is the country of registry for 249 vessels in this directory, of which Merisilta is the 122nd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (110 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,673 GT. Browse every ship flagged Finland.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 32 ferrys flying the Finland flag, of which 14 are larger by tonnage.
Merisilta was built in 1988, making it 38 years old. It is one of 920 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,512 GT; within it this ship is the 528th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 62 vessels to Rauma-Repola, with a median tonnage of 4,646 GT, delivered between 1956 and 1991. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 63.2 m overall, Merisilta is 40.8 m shorter than the 104.0 m median for ferrys on record, with a beam of 12.3 m and a draft of 3.6 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8702903 this registry holds 45 other vessels, whose median build year is 1987 and which range from 1970 to 1991. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1988.
Its IMO number, 8702903, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 7×6 + 0×5 + 2×4 + 9×3 + 0×2 = 133 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.
